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December 2014

  1. Cheap clothes and the marvels of globalization
  2. I don’t believe you (you’re a liar)
  3. Communist Medical Care
  4. The Evidence of Altruism
  5. FDR Seizes Avery’s Yacht
  6. The Meaning of Tolerance
  7. Kevin Erdmann on Houses as an Investment
  8. So how’s the economy doing this year?
  9. Sunk Costs are Sunk: An Application to a Starbuck’s Run
  10. The Competitive Sieve and the Burden of Proof
  11. Did the North and South Converge?
  12. Merry Christmas
  13. The French experiment: Laffer >>>>>>> Piketty
  14. Why Florida Is My Favorite State
  15. Two Takes on Ebenezer Scrooge
  16. Gruber and Henderson on Health Care Mandates
  17. Outsourced to Scott Alexander
  18. The Brooklyn Cop Killings: A Numerate Analysis
  19. Choosing the right tools
  20. W. Lee Hansen on University of Wisconsin Grading Quotas
  21. Obama vs. Wall Street Journal on Global Oil Markets
  22. Markets describe reality; models should explain market reactions
  23. Good for Michael Vick–or Incentives
  24. Los Angeles Unions’ Two-fer on Minimum Wage
  25. France seeks liberalizations, but bans Uber
  26. Two Cheers for Obama on Cuba
  27. Central banks should do their job
  28. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: Recap
  29. Henderson on Asking Tough Questions of Government Bureaucrats
  30. The ECB: Is it a hopeless case?
  31. Deadweight Loss from the New California Gas Tax
  32. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: Refining the Case
  33. Kling on the Constitution and the Common Law
  34. Speaking of torture . . .
  35. The Man of One Study
  36. Boudreaux on capitalism and slavery
  37. Friday Night Video: Gruber and Henderson
  38. My Apologies
  39. John Cochrane on modern macro
  40. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: We Can Live With Warming
  41. Cotton, slavery and capitalism
  42. The Inanity of the Welfare State
  43. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: We Owe Civilization to Fossil Fuels
  44. Campaign Spending Not that Effective
  45. War on crime? Or war on the poor?
  46. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: The Thesis
  47. The Wonder of Competition
  48. An Awkward Question About Blurred Consent
  49. Why debates over inflation are pointless
  50. Friday Night Video: Henderson on RT
  51. He Who Wills the End Wills the Means
  52. What (if anything) can we learn from 1921?
  53. Krugman’s Cursory Case Against Open Borders
  54. Robert Murphy on the 1920-21 Depression
  55. Bloggers >>>>>>>>>> Central banks
  56. Nathaniel Branden, RIP
  57. Government Regulation vs. the Market
  58. Rape Culture or Nationalist Culture?
  59. Brad DeLong poses two questions about NGDP targeting
  60. Charles Davis is Half Right
  61. Desrochers on synthetic dyes
  62. Who to Fear
  63. A Strange Critique of Libertarianism
  64. McKenzie on Tullock
  65. The IMF hits a new low
  66. Farewell, Art Carden
  67. The Puzzling Idealism of the Geneva Convention

November 2014

  1. Falling oil prices have no implications for global growth. Oil production does
  2. By Request: Religion and Unschooling
  3. By Request: Factor Price Equalization
  4. Saturday Afternoon Video: Dan Klein on Liberalism
  5. By Request: Externalities
  6. Robin Hanson’s Call for Empirical Research
  7. By Request: Economics and Christianity
  8. By Request: Walmart and Big Box Retailers, Part II: Results
  9. Krugman’s On-Again, Off-Again Analysis
  10. By Request: Walmart and Big-Box Retailers, Part I: Origins
  11. Neo-Fisherism converges on market monetarism
  12. The Piketty Path to Riches
  13. Giving Thanks
  14. I’m Thankful for Retailers Turning Commerce Into the Moral Equivalent of War
  15. My Proud “Don’t Call the Cops” Moment
  16. The Case for Balance Billing
  17. The Backward State of Behavioral Political Economy
  18. A few thoughts on free banking
  19. Immigration Charity Prospect
  20. Why America can’t have small government (and China can)
  21. Thank Obama for All He’s Done
  22. Carbon Taxes: The Tax Interaction Effect
  23. Mexican Drug Warriors Disguise Themselves as U.S. Marines for Operations in the United States
  24. Zycher on Gruber
  25. The smart against the dumb: The new Cold War
  26. Paul Krugman: David Henderson Was Right
  27. Herbert Spencer on Amazon (and Uber)
  28. The Lawful Neutral Case for Deferred Action
  29. EconLog Guest Stint #2 Ends This Month: Requests?
  30. On the Complexity of the World
  31. Two Cheers at Least for Some Politicians
  32. I Keep Returning to This Book…
  33. A Nice Quote for Obama’s Immigration Address
  34. The Bottom Line on DACA
  35. The New Brownsville U-Turn
  36. Kakha Bendukidze, RIP
  37. Intertemporal Corruption
  38. Sticky wages and sticky fed funds rates
  39. Bechhofer Immigration Bet
  40. The Margins of Moral Weaseling
  41. No, low interest rates do not call for more public investment
  42. Congressional Consumers Uber Alles
  43. I’m not “the NGDP guy”
  44. Alvin Rabushka’s Triumph
  45. What Could UAB Get for What it Spends on Sports?
  46. The silence of the lambs
  47. Henderson on Net Neutrality and Economic Inequality
  48. A Lot Happened in 1962
  49. Best of the Blogs
  50. Hachette and Amazon made a deal
  51. A Judgmental Typology
  52. Jonathan Gruber’s Economics
  53. Worse than a crime, it was a blunder: A pragmatic case for honesty
  54. If I Had it to Do Over Again
  55. Save the Planet and Raise Wages: Liberalize Land Use Laws
  56. The Presumptive Puritan
  57. Goodman on Firms as a Vehicle for Regulation
  58. Imprisoning Immigrants
  59. Price Discrimination at the Movie Theater: Bring Your Own Candy, or See an Extra Movie
  60. The “War on Drugs” and crime rates
  61. Is George Selgin defending Keynes on liquidity traps?
  62. How Many People Does the War on Drugs Put in Prison?
  63. Two Tullock Stories
  64. The problem of population
  65. Henderson on Piketty, Part 6
  66. An odd incident in modern liberalism
  67. Henderson on Piketty, Part 5
  68. How Europe did a “1937”
  69. Stateless Reality 2.0 as a Substitute for Tyranny in Physical Reality
  70. Sunstein on Hayek
  71. Crime, Education, and the NLSY: The Role of the Sheepskin Effect
  72. Spencer matters
  73. Richard McKenzie on Gordon Tullock
  74. Low interest rates do not cause low inflation, or high inflation
  75. Third Parties in Congress: Props to Jon Murphy
  76. Gordon Tullock, 1922-2014
  77. Me in NYC on Thursday
  78. Reminiscences of Walter Heller
  79. The “it doesn’t matter” theories
  80. Some Election Day Reading, Watching, and Listening
  81. Crime, Education, and the NLSY: The Role of Ability Bias
  82. What’s Wrong with the Taylor Rule?
  83. Non-voting is a right too
  84. Two Skeptical Questions About State Capacity
  85. You Should Compromise With Me
  86. For some strange reason Keynes and Hayek caused the Great Recession
  87. DeLong on How Income Has Grown in all Quintiles
  88. Can Labeling Compound Erroneous Beliefs?
  89. Good bye to tax competition

October 2014

  1. About That 97 Percent
  2. Does Identity Politics Pay?
  3. Supply and demand-side stagnation
  4. The Identity of Shame
  5. Henderson on Minimum Wage for Prager University
  6. Emigration and Citizenism
  7. Is Violence Against Women Ever OK?
  8. Read Scott Alexander
  9. John Goodman on Why We Have Political Stability
  10. Government Projects and Subsidies: What are the Alternatives?
  11. Teaching the Children by Example
  12. The ECB has an inflation target. How do the Germans propose they hit it?
  13. Who Will Build the Roads?
  14. Henderson on Piketty, Part 4
  15. My naivete about government officials
  16. I’m 90 Percent American and 10 Percent Canadian
  17. An Anarcho-Capitalist Disney Movie I’d Like to See: Who Paid for The Palace?
  18. Compulsory Attendance IVs Reconsidered
  19. IMF’s Loungani: Demand for Labor is Downward-Sloping
  20. The great sin, the even greater sin, and the enlightened path
  21. Minecraft, Survival Craft, and Network Goods
  22. Imagining the Proto-Blogosphere
  23. Krugman on Amazon
  24. Did the Bush tax rebates actually work?
  25. Crime and Sheepskins
  26. Progress on OTC Contraceptives
  27. Ebola Bet Followup
  28. How Economics Helps Us Understand: Airline Practices
  29. Nominal GDP is not real (and is really tiny)
  30. Preferences in The Warriors
  31. Ebola Bet
  32. Fixed Costs and Open Borders
  33. Henderson on Piketty, Part 3
  34. Friday Night Video: Tom Palmer on Leonard Liggio
  35. The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Sublime Apology
  36. Housing and poverty
  37. Ebola and Open Borders
  38. A Stigler Story
  39. What Does Fusion Mean for the Future?
  40. It’s the economy, stupid
  41. Prosecuting Truancy
  42. Leonard Liggio RIP
  43. An Odd A Priori Argument Against Private Education
  44. Happy Global Hand-Washing Day! Fighting Disease By Washing Hands With Soap
  45. Jean Tirole on Scaling Back Government
  46. Henderson on Tirole
  47. You know you’re in trouble when even the Italians forget how to inflate
  48. Diseases of Poverty: Neglecting the Obvious
  49. Financial Literacy, Human Capital, and Liberal Education
  50. Fawcett’s Liberalism
  51. The Bribes of Columbus
  52. Henderson on Piketty, Part 2
  53. No hawks or doves, just owls
  54. Conservative Relativism
  55. Henderson on Piketty, Part 1
  56. A 13 minute primer on DeirdreMcCloskeyanism
  57. Economics is symmetrical
  58. Unclear Thinking About Income Inequality
  59. Risk Analysis in One Lesson
  60. Should Financial Literacy Be Part of the Core of K-12 Education?
  61. Maskin’s Failure
  62. A certain laxity in word choice
  63. Words and meaning (good theft and bad)
  64. Pot Calling the Kettle . . . White?
  65. Lemieux: Let’s Lose the “We”
  66. Dobelli on Stadiums: What are the Alternatives?
  67. Barriers to Entry in Markets for Options on Municipal Bonds?
  68. Getting a B.A. and Living With Your Parents
  69. Can a Principled Person “Rise Above Principle?”
  70. Happy Birthday, Leland Yeager
  71. Currency and lotteries: Is there a free lunch?
  72. Investing: A Weekend Thought
  73. Jeff Hummel’s Case for Martin Van Buren over Tyler
  74. Twitter Chat on Personal Finance, Monday from 8-9 PM Central
  75. The Wonder of Markets
  76. Still no free lunch
  77. Aging Out of Addiction
  78. Ron McKinnon, RIP
  79. Daniel Hamermesh: Let’s Make it Harder for Low-Skilled People
  80. Is “spontaneous order” such a very bad idea?
  81. Rojas on Marijuana Legalization
  82. The Ultimate Incivility

September 2014

  1. Flying blind
  2. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bomb: A Brilliant Idea from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
  3. Time Inconsistency in Tax Policy: A Colombian Case Study
  4. Pious Thinking
  5. The Austrian Tradition on Mises’ Birthday
  6. The Use of Force in Society: Defining The State in Introductory Economics
  7. Why is the Right Soft on Education?
  8. Don’t jump to conclusions (markets are smarter than you or I)
  9. Recarving Rushmore: With Warren G. Harding
  10. What kind of Great Stagnation?
  11. Social Security: The Inside Story
  12. Is Collecting GDP Data An Exercise in the Fatal Conceit?
  13. Is the middle class being “squeezed?”
  14. Social TV: Social Media Creates More Weak Ties
  15. Spot the Problem
  16. The Welfare State as Extended Warranty
  17. Piketty, Piketty, Piketty, Piketty
  18. Richard McKenzie on Foreign Export Subsidies
  19. Social Desirability Bias and Abortion
  20. Canadian success
  21. Zeke Emmanuel on Optimal Life Expectancy
  22. The Puzzling Ubiquity of Disability
  23. The Key to victory: Run against Piketty-nomics
  24. Unintended Consequences of De-Insuring Insurance
  25. Uber Wars Update
  26. Response to Krugman on My Canada Study
  27. There is nothing tautological about market monetarism
  28. Saving Money with One Income
  29. What’s wrong with Hong Kong? (Too much government)
  30. Richard Epstein’s Faulty Case for Intervention
  31. Scotland and the irrational media
  32. Inequality in education
  33. Betting Markets, Polls, and the Human Drama: We’re Wasting Resources and Throwing Away Information
  34. Afterthoughts on Elizabeth Green EconTalk episode
  35. How High Is Schools’ Implicit Land Rent?
  36. Start
  37. Scotland, Quebec, and Tupy
  38. Clive Crook on Scotland
  39. Tribal Desire
  40. Free Trade is Awesome Because Brazilians Go To Disney World
  41. How Can Small Kids Earn a Few Dollars?
  42. My 1984 CEA Memo on Alaskan Oil Exports
  43. The Universal Citizenist
  44. Recent Reading: Onward, Christian Soldiers Edition
  45. Implicit Rent and the True Cost of Education Bleg
  46. Once again, tight money is the Achilles heel of the right
  47. Vanguard’s Strange Assumption
  48. My 1983 CEA Memo on the Ban on Alaskan Oil Exports
  49. Will “Minecraft Coaching” be a 21st Century Job?
  50. The Logic of Gilensian Activism
  51. Will Scottish secession be a disaster?
  52. Ending slavery made America richer
  53. Open Borders: My Vox Interview
  54. Larry Summers on Oil Exports, Part II
  55. What’s worse than a sloppy government bureaucracy?
  56. The Closing of the Liberal Mind (pt. 2)
  57. Larry Summers on Oil Exports, Part I
  58. A Szaszian Take on Conformity Signaling
  59. Our Regulated Society
  60. The Summer of Sharing
  61. Bets On Whether We Will Successfully “Degrade and Destroy” ISIS?
  62. Silent Citizenism
  63. First Cut
  64. Lorenzo on the opponents of neoliberalism
  65. Why Should You Major in Economics?
  66. Left wing parents and right wing dystopias
  67. Why Subsidize Signaling? An Open Letter to Catherine Rampell
  68. The Wall Street Journal must think Milton Friedman was a Keynesian
  69. Prize Bleg
  70. Where I Dissent from Nathan Smith
  71. Is deflation bad?
  72. Reply to Scott Sumner on Global Warming
  73. Never reason from a wage change
  74. The Nixon Pardon: Incentives Matter in Politics Too
  75. Laniakea for the Laniakeans!
  76. Four things I believe
  77. Joan Rivers: More than a Comedian
  78. What Would Happen if Teams Went For it on Fourth Down More Often?
  79. What Every High School Junior Should Know About Going to College
  80. Yellen is a Good Keynesian
  81. Arrow: Why Shouldn’t I Go to the Highest Bidder?
  82. Kling on Bush and Baker on Health Care
  83. How to Teach the Income and Substitution Effects
  84. Are Your Clicks More Powerful Than Your Votes?
  85. (Taxi) Deutschland Über Uber
  86. California Drought: A Pricing Problem
  87. Heuristics and Public Policy: Being Faithful With Little to be Trusted With Much?
  88. Uber Wars. The Ban Menace
  89. Against Winning
  90. Predicting bubbles
  91. The Role of Unions

August 2014

  1. Robert Litan on Microeconomists’ Contributions
  2. Meteorological Impossibilities
  3. The Wisdom of Chairman Dwight
  4. Should You Take Notes By Hand and Read Paper Books?
  5. Anthony de Jasay on “rights”
  6. Markets and Prices Allow Us To Use Knowledge We Don’t Have
  7. Why Do Government Enterprises Work So Well?
  8. Intellectual decay
  9. Who Owns the “Right to Recline?” The Airline
  10. Look-Alikes Don’t Look Like Identical Twins
  11. Freedom of Association: What Noam Scheiber Misses
  12. Schooling and Technology in The Second Machine Age
  13. Mencken’s Appeasement
  14. Mr. Bernanke vs. the Structuralists
  15. Food, snobbery and anti-capitalism
  16. The Sweet Spot of Freedom
  17. The Environment: Own It and Save It
  18. The Veil of Implausibility
  19. Richard Timberlake on Money
  20. Never reason from a bond price change
  21. Nominal GDP targeting in developing countries
  22. Greenhouse Gases
  23. Friday Night Audio: Henderson on George Hilton
  24. Education Bet Update
  25. One Innocent Person is Killed. Response: Kill More Innocent People
  26. Paul Krugman on Why We Fight
  27. What’s the Use of Crying Over Spilled Blood?
  28. George Hilton, RIP
  29. Paper of the Week: The Jitneys, or The Uber of Early 20th Century
  30. Practical Guidance for Prudent Students
  31. When supply is demand
  32. Krugman on Health Care: I Advocate Horror
  33. Canada’s Single Payer/Single Problem
  34. Tolerance Before Empathy
  35. Walmart to the Rescue
  36. Our Poverty and Theirs
  37. Quarters on the Sidewalk as Stimulus
  38. Grade deflation, grade illusion, and academic depressions
  39. Causation
  40. Never reason from a price change, even in Japan
  41. Classical liberalism, the forgotten Italians
  42. Cryptocurrencies and Mobile Tipping
  43. Tyler Cowen on ECB policy
  44. Formal and Informal Violence Against African-Americans: Two Papers
  45. Jonathan Chait’s bizarre idea of an honest poll
  46. Cotton, and Slaves, and Arrogance: Honor and Violence, Machismo and Appeasement
  47. Prohibition: Then versus Now
  48. The Ethics of Individualism
  49. Open Borders Bingo!
  50. Haidt and the Moral Foundations of the Welfare State
  51. Choose Your Battles
  52. The economy is more subtle and complex than you might assume
  53. Uber’s Strategy: Appeal to People, Not Power?
  54. A Public Transportation Patch: Why Not School Buses?
  55. Great Moments in Economic Estimation
  56. The power of wishful thinking?
  57. Krugman and I Agree on the DMV
  58. A Working Economy of Strangers
  59. When the straightforward interpretation seems crazy
  60. Law vs. Legislation
  61. Will lower prices gain Uber support?
  62. A Good Heuristic for Public Policy? Does This Require Extra Intelligence and Virtue?
  63. Calvin Coolidge on the Federal Government
  64. Machismo vs. Appeasement
  65. Trust, Even in the Face of Government Hostility
  66. The Fiscal Prognosis
  67. Charles Cooke’s lame dismissal of left wing nerds
  68. The Greatest Invention in History
  69. Great Moments (Almost) in Property Rights
  70. The Quantum Leap of Logic
  71. Common Sense: As True As It Seems
  72. Prohibition for Thee but Not for Me
  73. A Patron Saint for entrepreneurs
  74. Bootleggers and Baptists in Alabama Politics
  75. My Life of Appeasement
  76. Economics: Truer than it seems
  77. Boudreaux on Piketty
  78. Data Bleg: Accident Rates for Ride-Sharing Services?
  79. Lame Excuses: What’s Wrong With the Adversarial System
  80. Today’s Necessary Skills, Tomorrow’s Hobbies: From the Comments
  81. You Know You’re an Economist When . . .
  82. Think tanks, idea factories no more?
  83. If something can’t go on forever, it will
  84. Which Essential Skills Today Will Be Obsolete Soon?
  85. Immigrants Are Good for Cosmopolitan Tolerance

July 2014

  1. What Do Constitutions Do? Star Trek Edition
  2. Scenes from the Rent-Seeking Society: A Final Post on Ride Sharing and the Importance of Constitutions
  3. Immigrants as Defenders of Freedom
  4. Wolfers on the fiscal consensus
  5. Bruce Benson on the Holdout Problem
  6. Is the French public debate evolving?
  7. Huemer’s Moderation
  8. “Helicopter drops” are a bad idea at any time
  9. Eminent Domain Bleg
  10. Why Don’t We Observe Time-Traveling Arbitrageurs?
  11. Intervention Leads to More Intervention
  12. A Non-Conformist’s Guide to Success in a Conformist World
  13. I feel pain therefore I am (a utilitarian)
  14. Kahneman’s Thinking, Caplan’s Eureka, and Mary Poppins’ Living Wage
  15. Mark Thoma’s Selective Edits
  16. Bad Faith and Court Decisions
  17. Does Predictability Imply Bad Faith?
  18. Today’s Single Mothers Compared to Fantine: How Far We’ve Come
  19. The Economist on Overparenting
  20. Nick Rowe on fiscal policy (and reply to Caplan)
  21. The Rhetoric of Rights and Permission
  22. Recent Reading: Adam Thierer, Permissionless Innovation
  23. Evolution and Moral Intuition
  24. Good bye to the book as we know it?
  25. John Blundell, RIP
  26. Quality Control and a Level Playing Field in the Sharing Economy: Uber in Birmingham
  27. Beyond left and right
  28. What to Learn from The Catcher in the Rye
  29. This is HUGE!
  30. The Brilliance Of The Onion on Immigrant Fruit
  31. Some Empirics of Moral Philosophy
  32. Scott’s Utilitarian Leniency
  33. A few notes on utilitarianism
  34. McArdle on 15-Year Mortgages
  35. Does Paying More to Hire Americans Help Americans?
  36. The Argument from Conscience
  37. Happy “Almost Assassinate Hitler Day”
  38. Endogenous Sexism Explained
  39. An Internet secession so far
  40. The wisdom of Cass Sunstein
  41. Free Market Virtues
  42. Economics is all about consumption
  43. Carlos Ball, RIP
  44. Endogenous Sexism
  45. Good News on Australia’s Economic Policies
  46. Where Will We Put All These Immigrants?
  47. A(nother) Colbertian in Brussels
  48. AD: Eleven stages of enlightenment
  49. Note on Borjas: Non-Binding Constraints Are Not Necessary
  50. Trillion Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk: The Borjas Critique
  51. Governments don’t create problems, they solve problems
  52. Mind Your Own Beesness
  53. Your Big Doubts About the 10,000 Hour Rule Are Well-Founded
  54. Philip Booth on Thomas Piketty
  55. “The Criminalization of Parenthood” and Mortality Risks
  56. Intolerant Socialism
  57. Voluntary-but Bossy-Socialism
  58. A Few Recent Scribbles on Uber, Population Growth, and Inflation
  59. Saturday Morning Video
  60. Conservative Authoritarianism: An Exercise Based on Bryan Caplan’s “Liberal Authoritarianism”
  61. What Is Tyler Smoking?
  62. There are two kinds of people . . .
  63. Adam Smith on Stationary Bandits vs Roving Bandits
  64. Ownership for Cartoonishly Nice People
  65. Do Credential Scandals Support the Signaling Model?
  66. Economics Never Stops: What’s Missing from the Minimum Wage Debate?
  67. Boudreaux on McCloskey
  68. Free Intentions
  69. Why no Kansas miracle?
  70. Piketty Bleg
  71. Landfills as Inventories
  72. Robert Murphy on Capital and Income
  73. The Weak-Willed Do-Gooder
  74. Henderson, Rothbard on Fractional Reserves
  75. More on Schuck and Government Failure
  76. Schuck on Why Government Fails
  77. Clarabelle Cow, Capitalist
  78. “A Bet Disconcerts Him”: Kant on Betting and Beliefs
  79. What about Asia?
  80. I, Crayon
  81. How I Teach When I Really Want My Students to Learn
  82. You Nasty Creators of Consumer Surplus
  83. Mr. Krugman’s peculiar post
  84. IFWE on Hobby Lobby and the False Divide Between Sacred and Secular
  85. 21 Short Claims About Political Motivation
  86. Psychohistory and Changing One Event: What if Franz Ferdinand Hadn’t Been Shot?
  87. San Francisco: America’s Largest Gated Community
  88. Liberal Authoritarianism

June 2014

  1. Who Caused the August 1990 Spike in Oil Prices?
  2. The Majesty of the Law: Rules Aren’t Good Just Because They’re Rules
  3. Remembering Ken Minogue
  4. Does Bad Science Always Lead to Bad Policy?
  5. Poverty and “enterprise facilitators”
  6. When is nominal GDP targeting optimal?
  7. Henderson on Thaler and Sunstein
  8. Why Can’t We Be More Like Europe? Military Spending Edition
  9. Setting the Record Straight on George Will
  10. Shall business defend “capitalism”?
  11. Piketty on “merit”
  12. Don Boudreaux on the Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity
  13. Why Does High-Pressure Salesmanship Work?
  14. Bootleggers and Baptists: A Few Resources for Your Lunch Break
  15. The Economist: Give Tetlock Final Cut
  16. Evidence that EconLog has the Best Readers on the Internet
  17. New Immigration Journal from the Hoover Institution: Peregrine
  18. Bonding with Immigrants
  19. The Empire Strikes Back: Walmart Responds to the New York Times
  20. Evaluating The Arab Spring: What Would Tetlock Say?
  21. Jonathan Turley Echoes Milton Friedman
  22. Unpersuaded
  23. Why Not Capitalism?, Indeed: You Should Read Jason Brennan’s Latest
  24. France to ban e-cigs
  25. How To Protect Yourself From “Dumping” and Profit in the Process
  26. A Hardy Weed: How Traditionalists Underestimate Western Civ
  27. Low-Carbon Alternatives: Solar and Wind Suck
  28. A Political Constraint: There are People Who Get Their Jollies From Ruining Your Fun
  29. Another Immigrant Sneaks Across the Border to Take an American Job
  30. Friday Night Video: Eric Peters on How Government Regulation Messes Up Cars
  31. The Fed at 100: A century of procyclical policy
  32. Embarrass Me Now, Please
  33. Some Questions About Partisan Expulsion
  34. SMBC Features The Greatest Commencement Ever
  35. Dick Wagner on Buchanan
  36. Occupational Licensing: Rocky Balboa Fights the Rent-Seeking Society
  37. Huemer’s “The Use of Hypothetical Examples”
  38. Scenes from the Rent-Seeking Society: Norwegian Airlines Can’t Fly to the US
  39. It’s a Busy Week in the Carden House: Won’t You Join the Julian Simon Club?
  40. When Do Hypotheticals Cover Their Cost?
  41. Tyler Cowen versus Frederic Bastiat
  42. Two Calls for Papers from Econ Journal Watch
  43. Scenes from the Political Economy: Scooter Regulation in Panama City, Florida
  44. What does 1933-80 tell us about banking regulation?
  45. The Missing Arguments
  46. Taxi drivers of the world, unite!
  47. Dear Reader Almost Passes the Ideological Turing Test
  48. Fiscally inefficient monetary policy
  49. Richard Ebeling on “Thick Libertarianism”
  50. Dan Klein on Liberalism
  51. The Stockpile Solution
  52. Sports are Life
  53. Arnold Kling on Well-Being Over Time
  54. Never reason from an interest rate change
  55. Krugman’s Misleading Post on Coal
  56. Is the Social Security Tax Cap Disappearing?
  57. Bauman Climate Bet
  58. Liberalism unbound: Free lunch and dinner–all you can eat!
  59. Baptists, Bootleggers, and Public Squalor: Light Rail Isn’t a Good Public Investment
  60. About That High-Quality Insurance
  61. Bauman Climate Bet Bleg
  62. Reply to Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga
  63. Obama is to the right of Texas on pot legalization
  64. Frank Furedi on euroskepticism
  65. Friday Night Video: Mussolini–A Man of the Left
  66. Data Challenge: “Full-Time, Year-Round Workers” Can Be Briefly Unemployed?
  67. Show Me the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar: Whiskey Shortages and Austrian Business Cycle Theory
  68. The Daily Hell of the War on Drugs
  69. The First Fundamental Law of Capitalism
  70. Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: My Reservations Illustrated
  71. Data Challenge: Can “Full-Time, Year-Round Workers” Be Unemployed?
  72. Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: Pollution Taxes Illustrated
  73. Kierkegaard on Setting Aside Childish Things: Opinions and Judgment
  74. Krugman Defends Price Theory
  75. Happy birthday, Adam Smith
  76. Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: Experimental vs. Observational Studies Illustrated
  77. Myth of the Rational Voter: The Complete Animated Series
  78. Economics Never Stops: On the Costs and Benefits of Climate Change
  79. My Small Victory
  80. Private affluence, public squalor, high taxes
  81. Uncertainty Can Go Both Ways
  82. Voter Biases, Explained with Video
  83. The Difficulties with Lying
  84. Why Sailer Scares
  85. Unemployment Insurance Bleg
  86. Reverse Mortgages in Organs
  87. It’s Great to Be Back With One of My Favorite Blogs!
  88. The Problems with Bans on Insider Trading
  89. Piketty on Kuznets
  90. The Fungible Kidney
  91. John Blundell on the Rebirth of Austrian Economics
  92. Welcome Back, Carden

May 2014

  1. Raise Minimum Wage: Reduce Benefits
  2. Friday Night Video: Walter Block on Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard
  3. Can we have confidence in our opinions on immigration?
  4. A Eugenic Experiment
  5. OpenEurope on the European vote
  6. Is the Sharing Economy a Rip-Off?
  7. Dear Nationalism
  8. Inflation targeting: It’s even worse than you thought
  9. Partial Response to Yoram Bauman
  10. Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: Yoram’s Last Word
  11. Frank on Phony Credentials
  12. “Rationally Inactive”
  13. Lind’s Challenge for Progressives
  14. Frankly Signaling
  15. The goal of monetary stimulus is to boost saving
  16. Economism and Immigration
  17. Phil Magness on Piketty’s U.S. Wealth Data
  18. VA Health Care: The Problems with Government Agencies
  19. Ad Hominem
  20. Eating out. The wisdom of Tyler Cowen
  21. What is Pay? What is Wealth?
  22. Myth of the Rational Voter: The Animated Series, Part 4
  23. Talking More to Mark Krikorian
  24. Basketball teams compete with each other. Basketball team companies cooperate, as they should.
  25. Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: Rejoinder to Yoram Bauman
  26. Myth of the Rational Voter: The Animated Series, Part 3
  27. The Great Society at 50
  28. The middle class is doing fine
  29. Reynolds on Summers and Piketty
  30. Walter Oi on Government Budgeting
  31. Tucker on the Young Unemployed
  32. Los Angeles Times Distorts
  33. How People Get Good at Their Jobs
  34. Has Medicaid succeeded?
  35. Noah Smith on Modern Economics
  36. What is monetary policy?
  37. Williamson on Lind and Caplan; Me on Leonard Read
  38. Half-Staff for Farmers
  39. Partial Reply to Yoram Bauman
  40. Bauman Responds on The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
  41. The Improvident Rich
  42. I Feel Blessed
  43. Rational expectations doesn’t require smart people
  44. Shall we obey unjust regulations?
  45. Myth of the Rational Voter: The Animated Series, Part 2
  46. Quotes From a Colloquium
  47. Never debate the impact of a price change
  48. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
  49. Thoughts on Krikorian
  50. Exploring Elitist Democracy: The Latest from Gilens and Page
  51. The paradoxes of applying nationalism to immigration
  52. Healthcare… The return of the Singapore model
  53. Trade Creates Peace
  54. Me, Gilens, and Salon
  55. “Hollowing Out”: A Global Perspective
  56. Friday Night Video: Henderson on RT
  57. Mitt Romney’s True Colors
  58. Myth of the Rational Voter: The Animated Series
  59. Great Moments in Federal Government Retirement
  60. My Hoover Obit on Gary Stanley Becker
  61. Meant for Each Other: Open Borders and Western Civilization
  62. The Great Grandson Also Rises
  63. When ideologies change
  64. Gary Becker, A Reminiscence
  65. The economy should be “left alone to sort things out” during a recession
  66. My Moment with Gary Becker
  67. Robert P. Murphy on Capital
  68. Three Graphs About Trying and Failing
  69. Gary S. Becker, RIP
  70. Demagoguery Explained
  71. Friday Night Video: Daniel Hannan on Socialism
  72. The correct reason to oppose high MTRs
  73. Reply to Scott Sumner on 80% Marginal Tax Rates
  74. What If Firms Could Opt Out of Sexual Harassment Law?

April 2014

  1. Where Does All the Booze Go?
  2. Feminizing Famine
  3. Donald Sterling and the Economics of Discrimination
  4. Is it OK to reason from a (aggregate) wage change?
  5. Farewell, James Schneider
  6. Ayn Rand in the Happy Lab
  7. Applying Hayek’s “Local Knowledge” Insight to Foreign Policy
  8. The resurrection of the automatic watch
  9. Cowen and Crisis Reconsidered
  10. A pragmatic view of causation
  11. Acemoglu and Robinson on Mobutu
  12. George R.R. Martin’s Pacifist Tendencies
  13. “The ‘liquidity trap’ only is a mental constraint in the heads of central bankers.”
  14. Schumpeter, intellectuals and capitalism
  15. Too Many
  16. Econlib in Classes
  17. There’s only one sensible way to measure economic inequality
  18. Talking to Mark Krikorian
  19. Cuba’s Wage Policy: Modified Nazi
  20. Robert Solow on Piketty
  21. America Should Open Its Borders: My Opening Statement for the Reason Immigration Debate
  22. We aren’t very Victorian, are we?
  23. Crazy Immigration
  24. German success is surprisingly recent
  25. Krugman’s Strange Post on Solar Power
  26. Why the EMH is truer than supply and demand
  27. Gary Johnson’s Bold Attack on Freedom of Association
  28. Social Desirability Bias: How Psych Can Salvage Econo-Cynicism
  29. Old Home Week
  30. Facts
  31. Quantum finance
  32. I’m a Liberal
  33. Tuesday Immigration Debate
  34. Europe vs Uber
  35. Rudebusch on “Housing Demand”
  36. Tourists Welcome
  37. Can a Positive Number Fall by over 100 Percent and Still be Positive?
  38. Bad news; industrial production is soaring
  39. I’ve Won My TARP Bet
  40. I Agree with Barbara Ehrenreich
  41. Larry Summers is persuasive
  42. Try Harder or Do Something Easier?
  43. Smoking, Social Desirability Bias, and Dark Matter
  44. Civil Disobedience: King versus Huemer
  45. Germany’s mysterious recovery
  46. Ramblings on Piketty
  47. My San Francisco Fed Talk
  48. Divorce and Motivated Reasoning in the WaPo
  49. Longer Pub Hours, Fewer Car Accidents in England and Wales
  50. Robert Reich on the Minimum Wage: How Would He Draw the Demand and Supply Curves?
  51. Kids and Happiness: The State of the Art
  52. Maximizing Short-Run Profits
  53. Inequality among doctors
  54. The Moral Vision of a Blind Economist
  55. Crude Self-Interest: Why Kids Go to College
  56. Simon Kuznets: An Appreciation
  57. The Impolitic Wisdom of Simon Kuznets
  58. Reason’s Home Run on Immigration
  59. The Righteous Scofflaw
  60. Is Venice going to secede?
  61. Robert Bradley on Enron
  62. Freakonomics Discovers Alchian’s and Allen’s “Oranges Principle”
  63. Never reason from an inflation rate change
  64. The Ghetto of Talent
  65. Not Just Horsepower but Power without Horses
  66. The (Metaphorical) Bet: Paul Ehrlich versus Norman Borlaug
  67. What we are up against
  68. I’ve Changed My Mind, Part 2
  69. Water Runs Downhill, and School Is Boring
  70. What’s a Doctor to Do?
  71. Is Welfare a Band-Aid for Nominal Wage Rigidity?
  72. Marshall’s scissors and the Law of Reflux
  73. Nudging consumers and regulators
  74. I’ve Changed My Mind
  75. Answering Arnold’s Challenge
  76. You Don’t Know the Best Way to Deal with Russia

March 2014

  1. Did Mortgage-Security Professionals Time the Housing Crash?
  2. Please Advocate Your Special Interest Rather than Sticking up for Taxpayers
  3. One multiplier to rule them all! (apologies to Nick Rowe)
  4. Shall we fight tobacco with “plain packaging”?
  5. The Market for Less
  6. Lessons from “The Lives of Others”
  7. A Few Dangers of Heroin Prohibition
  8. Fracking boom won’t create many manufacturing jobs
  9. A British Perspective on American Signaling
  10. From the Vault: Reply to the Village Voice
  11. Central banks do not deserve our respect
  12. The Swamping that Wasn’t: The Diaspora Dynamics of the Puerto Rican Open Borders Experiment
  13. Pillars of Economic Wisdom in Action
  14. Adding a risk mandate: A 5 bumper shot in billiards?
  15. How Diabolical is Unz’s Proposal?
  16. Michael Cannon’s Cannon
  17. Socialism Was Born Bad: The Case of Oskar Lange
  18. Endless bubbles?
  19. The Worst They Can Do
  20. Paris Flirts With Banning Cars Based on License-Plate Number
  21. Endogeneity and the Drug War
  22. Question for Scott
  23. Murray Weidenbaum, RIP
  24. Are ZMP workers uneducated or unmotivated?
  25. A survey on communist symbols
  26. Victory at Oberlin
  27. Open Borders Day Roundup
  28. What the Market Says about Your Neighbor’s Restaurant Choices
  29. Why we debate the unimportant issues
  30. A Curiously Uncurious Interview: The Nation, Unz, the Minimum Wage, and Immigration
  31. David Friedman on Bill Nordhaus; Timothy Taylor on Bad Academic Writing
  32. Keynes for limited government?
  33. Would (Our) Open Borders Lead to (Their) Closed Borders?
  34. The Legacy of Milton Friedman
  35. Reminder: My Debate at Oberlin
  36. The Marital Return to Education: An Epiphany
  37. Pikkety and Inequality: My Reply to Commenters
  38. The Popularity of Silly Methods
  39. Milton and Rose Friedman on Inequality
  40. An excellent book review
  41. Federal Student Aid Increases Tuition: Cosmetology School Edition
  42. Immigration: My Eyes Work Fine
  43. Open Borders Day is Starting
  44. George Soros, speculator and proud
  45. Proposed Questions for Oberlin Debate
  46. Francis A. Walker
  47. 1896: Immigration and The Atlantic
  48. Piketty’s Dodge on Inequality
  49. How the interest rate increase of 2015 caused the Great Recession
  50. Being Sendhil Mullainathan
  51. Adam Smith Bio Corrected
  52. Optometry Challenge
  53. Value of Self-Rated Health Bleg
  54. Economics must be harder than it looks
  55. What Does Public Schooling Teach Us About Predatory Pricing?
  56. Even When More Isn’t Merrier, It Can Still Be Better
  57. Milton and Rose Friedman on High Taxation
  58. The old rules still apply (What the rest of the profession could learn from Ben Bernanke)
  59. Blame the Republicans
  60. Is Outrage at the Top 1% Distracting Us?
  61. The Modest Problem of Children Having Children
  62. Schuck on Why Government Fails So Often
  63. The European Union versus the e-cig
  64. 40 Years on the Status Treadmill
  65. Krugman slides deeper into old Keynesianism
  66. Was Bork Right About Mergers?
  67. Unemployment was 9.0% in May 1975, and money was too easy
  68. Poverty: The Stages of Blame Applied
  69. Caldwell on Hayek’s “Consistent” Stories
  70. How Will Legalizing Marijuana Impact Hard Drug Use?
  71. NGDP targeting is not a “fragile” policy
  72. An update on Mr. Renzi
  73. Poverty: The Stages of Blame
  74. Media Bias: RT May Have Less Than I Thought
  75. The Principal Doctrines of Epicurus: Friendliness, Social Intelligence, and the Bubble
  76. The Happiness of the Richest
  77. Henderson on TANSTAAFL
  78. Is Abenomics working?
  79. How Paul Krugman Made Me Afraid of the Government Debt
  80. Reminiscences of Rogge
  81. Ukrainian Prediction Challenge
  82. What Say You? The Intuitive Case Against the Minimum Wage
  83. The mysterious rise in youth unemployment
  84. 1.6%, Not 97%, Agree that Humans are the Main Cause of Global Warming

February 2014

  1. Income, Wealth, Happiness, and Ideological Convenience
  2. Wolfers Responds on Happiness
  3. Does happiness cause income?
  4. David Friedman on the 97% Consensus on Global Warming
  5. Aid to bookstores?
  6. Smoking Prevention: Nagging versus Taxing
  7. Crude Materialism versus the Wolfers Equation
  8. Williamson pulls rank on Yglesias
  9. The Singaporean Path to Cosmopolitanism
  10. Australia’s auto industry collapses as America’s booms
  11. 11-99 Foundation: Buying Protection
  12. How Welfare Hurts Walmart
  13. Bans Against Headscarves Can Backfire
  14. Was Mishkin the Benjamin Strong of 2008?
  15. The Minimum Wage vs. Welfare: Band-Aid or Salt?
  16. The Keynesian information bubble
  17. For Crying Out Loud, Dineen: Dealing with Long-Held Views that are Wrong
  18. Taxes are all around
  19. Who Should We Revere?
  20. Media Bias Yet Again
  21. The 2008 transcripts: The real issues
  22. CBO’s Minimum Wage Study: Dealing with Publication Bias
  23. Erik Prince on Collective Punishment
  24. Ambition Revisited
  25. Who is the Italian prime minister this week?
  26. Health Insurance as Collective Bargaining
  27. Desert versus Identity
  28. Krugman on Supply-Siders and Incentive Effects of Tax Cuts
  29. Why We Can’t Conclude that Obamacare Plus Subsidies are Good for Low-income People
  30. My Cato Address to Students for Liberty
  31. Bastiat just rolled over in his grave
  32. Ballparking the Marital Return to College
  33. Jason Furman: Excellent or Sad
  34. In the 1930s it seemed “obvious” that financial turmoil had caused the Great Depression
  35. Rent Control Devalues the Whole Neighborhood
  36. Questions that have no answer
  37. Krugman and Gruber are deeply confused about “voluntary” job losses
  38. Lenin the Prohibitionist
  39. Never reason from a price change, example #305
  40. Don’t Nudge Me, Man! – Health Insurance Edition
  41. Open Letter to President Wildes re Professor Block
  42. Steve Horwitz on the Conspiracy Behind the Federal Reserve
  43. Immaculate inflation and immaculate growth
  44. What consequences for the Swiss referendum?
  45. What Bad Students Know that Good Economists Don’t
  46. Everest and the Quest for Status
  47. Evolutionary Psychology on Crusonia
  48. Krugman and Blinder: Welcome to the Supply Side
  49. What Janet Yellen and Rick Santorum Have in Common
  50. The Futility of Quarreling When There Is No Surplus to Divide
  51. Why Income Mobility is Larger in the Middle
  52. What the Swiss Vote Really Shows
  53. Why do booms feel good?
  54. A Question of Organizational Literacy
  55. American Hustle: Unreal and Real
  56. Bias and Bigness Bleg
  57. How not to privatize
  58. OK, now I’m really confused (the snake and the peg)
  59. Why India’s Ban Against Child Labor Increased Child Labor
  60. How Rival Marriage Is
  61. Me at Webber Tonight
  62. Bleg on Health Care Questions
  63. AMA Highlights
  64. Deception-Based Medicine
  65. Two cheers for the tasteless
  66. Diasporas, Swamping, and Open Borders Abolitionism
  67. The ECB is steering the economy (plus a survey of nautical metaphors)
  68. Ask Me Anything Tonight
  69. Obituary Hypothetical: What If Mengele Cured Cancer?
  70. The Sucker Tax
  71. Robert Murphy on the Minimum Wage
  72. Meet James Schneider
  73. Where the Stress Falls

January 2014

  1. The Gains from Getting Rid of “Run Amok” Occupational Licensing
  2. Gochenour-Nowrasteh on the Political Externalities of Immigration
  3. How to measure the influence of think tanks?
  4. Confusion about Income Inequality
  5. Keynesian confirmation bias
  6. I’m Too Busy Fighting Tyranny to Feed My Family
  7. Self-Harm is a Luxury
  8. Henderson and Krueger on NPR Today
  9. In Praise of Passivity
  10. Why so glum?
  11. Marginal Tax Rates: Singing Taxman to My Class
  12. German President defends the market economy
  13. Pritchett on Private vs. Government Schools
  14. Chinese families move from nice neighborhoods to slums, for the schools.
  15. Liability, Disclaimers, and Adverse Selection
  16. Frederick Douglass on What He Learned from Adam Smith
  17. Poverty and Income Inequality are Separate Issues
  18. Schooling Ain’t Learning, But It Is Money
  19. The Auction/Bidding Metaphor: Geico and Roy Childs
  20. NGDP isn’t “the economy”
  21. Spiderman and the trust-busters
  22. Mankiw on Parental Advantages
  23. Friday Evening Video: Henderson on Fox News Channel
  24. Steve Moore’s Alternative Maximum Tax
  25. Predicting the Popularity of Obvious Methods
  26. Warren Gibson on Bad Libertarian Arguments
  27. Mandela and Communist Villainy
  28. Don’t expect too much from inflation
  29. Amazon’s crystal ball
  30. Correction on Mandela
  31. Henderson on Jonathan Macey
  32. Mandela: Reckless But Lucky
  33. Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism: Blame Nationalism for Both
  34. Minimum Wage Increase Will Reduce Poverty Even Less than I Thought
  35. Unemployment Insurance and Paul Krugman: Stating the Issue Correctly
  36. Imagine there’s no economic inequality
  37. Why So High? Economics and the Value of Life
  38. Drowning Redheads is Wrong Even Though Water is Wet
  39. A Private Non-Subsidized U.S. 21st Century Passenger Railroad
  40. Multiple Bandits are Roving Bandits
  41. Eighty years later and the results are the same
  42. The Prudence of the Poor
  43. Is Losing Your Job in Your Economic Self-Interest?
  44. John Cochrane Views the World
  45. Why are Keynesians so far-sighted?
  46. The Discipline of Dismissal
  47. Minimum Wage Not Well Targeted at Reducing Poverty
  48. Do barriers create “bubbles?”
  49. Robert Frank’s Confusions
  50. Sitting on an Ocean of Hypotheticals
  51. Could we have another Arthur Seldon?
  52. My Top 10 Picks
  53. Market monetarism in 2013
  54. How Rival Is Your Marriage?
  55. Sitting on an Ocean of Alaskan Oil
  56. Hayekian arguments for basic income
  57. Walter Oi, An Appreciation
  58. Free Market Economics Books Bleg
  59. What’s Wrong With IVs? [wonkish]
  60. Summers believes we can reduce bubbles with big budget deficits.
  61. Sitting on an Ocean of Talent
  62. NSA Spying: A Cost/Benefit Analysis
  63. Self-Help: The Obvious Remedy for Academic Malemployment
  64. Another disappointing reaction to The Great Market Monetarist Experiment
  65. Noah Smith on Redistribution
  66. Is Average Over?: Two Equivocal Graphs
  67. Great Moments in Crowd Sourcing
  68. Tell Me How It Feels to Be a Bad Student
  69. Keynesianism: It’s not just resting
  70. The Orange Moon
  71. Some People Won’t Like the Results? Let’s Quit Measuring Them
  72. Will on Somin on Judicial Review
  73. Employment and the Return to Education: The Right Way to Count
  74. Don’t follow the money
  75. Tell Me What “Average Is Over” Looks Like

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